Eastern College Athletic Conference (1962–2004) ECAC Hockey League (2004–2007)
Headquarters
Albany, New York
Commissioner
Steve Hagwell
Website
www.ecachockey.com
Locations
Locations of current ECAC Hockey member institutions.
ECAC Hockey is one of the six conferences that compete in NCAA Division I ice hockey. The conference used to be affiliated with the Eastern College Athletic Conference, a consortium of over 300 colleges in the eastern United States. This relationship ended in 2004; however, the ECAC abbreviation was retained in the name of the hockey conference.[1] ECAC Hockey is the only ice hockey conference with identical memberships in both its women's and men's divisions.
Contents
1History
2Membership
2.1Ivy League teams
2.2Members
2.3Membership timeline
3Men's ECAC championship games
3.1Cleary Cup
4Women's ECAC championship games
5Men's Conference Records
6Conference arenas
7Awards
7.1All-Conference Teams
7.2Individual Awards
8NCAA Records
9References
10External links
History
ECAC Hockey was founded in 1961 as a loose association of college hockey teams in the Northeast.[2] In June 1983, concerns that the Ivy League schools were potentially leaving the conference and disagreements over schedule length versus academics caused Boston University, Boston College, Providence, Northeastern and New Hampshire to decide to leave the ECAC to form what would become Hockey East, which began play in the 1984–85 season.[1] By that fall, Maine also departed the ECAC for the new conference.[3] This left the ECAC with twelve teams (Army, Brown, Clarkson, Colgate, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, RPI, St. Lawrence, Vermont, and Yale). Army would stay in the conference until the end of the 1990–91 season, at which point they became independent (they now play in Atlantic Hockey) and were replaced by Union College. Vermont left the ECAC for Hockey East at the end of the 2004–05 season, and were replaced in the conference by Quinnipiac.[1]
The ECAC began sponsoring an invitational women's tournament in 1985. ECAC teams began playing an informal regular season schedule in the 1988–89 season, with the conference officially sponsoring women's hockey beginning in the 1993–94 season.[4] ECAC teams won two of the three pre-NCAA American Women's College Hockey Alliance national championships, New Hampshire winning in 1998 and Harvard in 1999.
The ECAC was the only Division I men's hockey conference that neither gained nor lost members during the major conference realignment in 2011 and 2012 that followed the Big Ten Conference's announcement that it would launch a men's hockey league in the 2013–14 season.
Membership
There are 12 member schools in the ECAC. Since the 2006–07 season, all schools have participated with men's and women's teams, making ECAC Hockey the only Division I hockey conference with a full complement of teams for both sexes.[1]
Ivy League teams
The six Ivy League universities with Division I ice hockey programs are all members of ECAC Hockey. Neither the University of Pennsylvania nor Columbia University has a varsity intercollegiate ice hockey program. Penn supported an intercollegiate varsity hockey program in the past and was an ECAC Hockey member from 1966 to 1978 before the team was disbanded. The Ivy school that has the best record against other Ivy opponents in regular season ECAC games is crowned the Ivy League ice hockey champion. The Ivy League schools require their teams to play seasons that are about three weeks shorter than those of the other schools in the league.[5] Thus, they enter the league schedule with fewer non-conference warm-up games. Harvard competes in the annual Beanpot Tournament.
Members
Institution
Location
Nickname
Founded
Historical Affiliation
Enrollment
Primary Conference
Colors
Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island
Bears
1764
Nonsectarian, founded by Baptists, but founding charter promises "no religious tests" and "full liberty of conscience"[6]
9,380[7]
Ivy League
Clarkson University
Potsdam, New York
Golden Knights
1896
Private/Non-sectarian
4,300[8]
Liberty League (D-III)
Colgate University
Hamilton, New York
Raiders
1819
Private/Baptists[9]
2,982[10]
Patriot League
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York
Big Red
1865
Private/Non-sectarian
23,600[11]
Ivy League
Dartmouth College
Hanover, New Hampshire
Big Green
1769
Private/Congregationalist
5,753[12]
Ivy League
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Crimson
1636
Private/Unitarian
20,042[13]
Ivy League
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey
Tigers
1746
Nonsectarian, but founded by Presbyterians[14]
6,677[15]
Ivy League
Quinnipiac University
Hamden, Connecticut
Bobcats
1929
Private/Non-sectarian
10,290[16]
MAAC
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, New York
Engineers
1824
Private/Non-sectarian
7,633[17]
Liberty League (D-III)
St. Lawrence University
Canton, New York
Saints
1856
Non-denominational, founded by Universalist Church of America
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